It follows the adventures of Colonel Jack O'Neill as he struggles to free the slaves of Abydos, defeat Ra, and get his mission team back home using the stargate device.

The local inhabitants of Abydos, the Nagadans, have helped the team escape the attack, but the supplies were left behind in caves.

O’Neil will have to find the supplies, the bomb, and seven Egyptian hieroglyphs scattered throughout the area, the last needed to work the stargate and get his men home.

O’Neill finds his men, who tell him that Ra's general, Anubis, is after the Nagadan rebel leader named Sha’uri.

Realizing that he will need the Nagadan's help to complete his mission, O’Neill must find and destroy Anubis in the village before he can get to Sha’uri and stop the rebellion.

After temporarily defeating Anubis, O’Neill meets up with Sha’uri, and is asked to find a local boy, Skaara, who is crucial to the rebellion.

Jackson contacts O’Neill, asking him to search for Sha’uri, who has disguised herself as an elder, somewhere in the village to avoid Anubis.

Once the traitors are destroyed, a thankful elder gives O’Neil some herbs to help Jackson, who was injured while leaving Ra's hidden spaceship.

O’Neill's health is indicated by an energy bar found alongside information such as weapon status and grenade count on the heads-up display.

[7] There are many different enemies through the game, ranging from minor inconveniences like the fleeting scarab beetles to the difficult Horus guards.

[11] A reviewer for Next Generation, while deriding the side-scrolling gameplay as both unoriginal and unfaithful to the source material, admitted that he found the game fun for its solid level design and particularly its smooth character animation.